A resident of the Volgograd region has been arrested in connection with a treason case.

A resident of the Volgograd region, suspected of passing information about the deployment of Defense Ministry units to Ukrainian intelligence, has been taken into custody.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in November 2025, a court sentenced 44-year-old Novorossiysk resident Natalya Lopatko to 14 years in prison, finding her guilty of treason. Investigators believe the woman was passing information about air defense systems in Novorossiysk to an acquaintance, the daughter of a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.

A resident of the Volgograd region, born in 1995, has been detained in Sevastopol on suspicion of passing information about Black Sea Fleet facilities to Ukrainian intelligence, Interfax reports, citing the FSB Directorate for Crimea and Sevastopol.

According to the intelligence agency, the man proactively contacted a Ukrainian intelligence representative and, on assignment, collected and transmitted information about the deployment of Defense Ministry units in Sevastopol.

"A criminal case has been opened against the detainee under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("High Treason"). A preventive measure in the form of detention has been chosen," the agency quotes the agency as saying.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported on the case of Kevin Lik from Maikop, a citizen of Germany and Russia, who was sentenced in December 2023 to four years in prison on charges of treason. According to investigators, Lik, as a schoolboy, observed a military unit and photographed its locations.

According to a friend of Lik, he had previously posted photographs of flowers and plants in the mountains on social media, and also posted several portraits of himself, one of which was taken against the backdrop of a memorial armored train in Tula. Lik's case was the first case in Russia in which a schoolchild was charged with treason; previously, the youngest defendants in treason cases were college-age people.

In August 2024, Lik and 15 other convicted individuals, including human rights activist Oleg Orlov (included in the register of foreign agents), were released as part of a prisoner exchange with Western countries.